creator Khaligh, Alireza creator Lee, Young-joo creator Emadi, Ali A method of controlling a DC/DC converter to regulate an output voltage from an input voltage source that varies from a fully-charged voltage to a discharged voltage. The method introduced improves the dynamic response of the converter during transients by switching between different converter topologies to spread out voltage spikes, which are an inevitable result of transients. The invention also can improve the efficiency of the DC/DC converter by replacing higher loss modes with combination modes. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-22T18:05:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 8089254.pdf: 385698 bytes, checksum: 87983cae68039bb930df9f7f4191c087 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-22T18:05:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8089254.pdf: 385698 bytes, checksum: 87983cae68039bb930df9f7f4191c087 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-01-03 Illinois Institute of Technology 2012-03-20 2012-01-03 8,089,254 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2691 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access